Online: Empathy

Recognize, understand and share the thoughts and feelings of others

There are all sorts of ways to understand what motivates another person. In this course, you'll work on empathy. You'll learn to understand other people's motivations by being aware of nonverbal communication and emotions. Interpreting someone's behavior plays an important role in this respect. It will help you to put yourself in other people's shoes, thus enabling you to examine their motives, place them in a neutral framework, or even admire their characteristics. Learn to look at things through someone else's eyes and understand what motivates this person.

Theme: Communication and interacton
Learn the ability to sense other people's emotions
Reading time: 2 hours, exclusive of practice and assignments
Study time: 12 hours (estimated)
Total duration: 2-6 weeks

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What and how

Are you quick to judge? Do you often think others are too emotional, or do people find you rough around the edges? These are all reasons to follow this empathy course.

You can only know if you've really understood someone correctly, by discussing their motives. This way you can check your interpretation of this person's behavior. And that's what you'll be working on in this learning journey. Keep asking yourself what really motivates the other person by asking yourself various questions. What does the other person think? What is the other person's intention? How can I keep seeing and discovering the other person's positive characteristics? In short: put yourself in the other person's shoes.

What will I learn?
Everyone has difficulty with another person now and then. However, sometimes we may just misinterpret the other person's behavior. If someone always arrives late, this doesn't necessarily mean that the person disrespects you. This person may be very insecure about his or her appearance and therefore primps right up until the last moment before leaving the house. When you understand others better, you can give difficult conversations a more positive direction. Then you will also be less quick to become irritated about the other person's "odd" characteristics. That's the starting point and goal of this empathy course.

What will I do?
Seeing things through someone else's eyes, and putting yourself in his or her shoes, enables you to better understand this person. To understand what motivates another person, it's important for you to really be able to look closely at him or her. And that's what we're going to do in this learning journey. You are going to carefully observe the other person. Everyone gives off signals, some more clearly than others. People do this continuously: for example, in the way they speak or through various forms of nonverbal communication. Everyone picks up on signals from others and interprets them. Yes, you too. For example, you can see if someone is happy or sad or is having a hard time with something. These are valuable signals that are emitted, but do you interpret them correctly? You'll find out this and more during this empathy training.

In this learning journey, you'll discover:

how empathy benefits you
how to understand others better
how to understand other people's motivations

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Our online courses are written by our "masters." Each one of them is an expert in their field, and they all have many years of experience. Among them you'll find trainers, psychologists, coaches, authors, etc.

Ernestine is the creative force behind a range of learning journeys. Her goal is to make learning fun and to teach practical skills that really help people grow.

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